Rein-guide



(No Model.)

J. W. STOAKES 8v T. P. FRITH.

. REIN GUIDE.

N0. 428,868. Patented May 27, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

.I AMES III. STOAKES AND THOMAS F. FRITH, OF MILAN, OHIO.

REIN-GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,868, dated May 27,1890.

Application filed August 27, 1889. Serial No. 322,072. (No model.)

.T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that We, JAMES WV. STOAKES and THOMAS F. FRITH, both ofMilan, in the county of Erie and State of Ohio, have invented a new anduseful Improvement iu Rein-Guides, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its obj ect the production of a device whichshall prevent the driving-reins from being accidentally wrapped aroundthe thills or shafts of single vehicles. To more clearly explain this,it may be stated that when a horse is hitched to a single vehicle andswings his head about, as he is apt to do, he is very liable, when thereins are Slack, to swing the reins-that.is, either oneunder the end ofthe shafts. This so draws upon the bit of the horse as to make himunmanageable until the rein is released from such entanglement, and manyaccidents have happened from this very cause, inasmuch as a horses firstimpulse under such circumstances is to turn sharp around on the side therein has become fouled.

Our invention obviates this risk and liability by guiding and supportingthe reins so that they Will be free from such entanglement with thethills or shafts; and to this end the invention consists in a rein guideand support of novel construction and designed to be suspended from thethroat-latch of the bridle, substantially as hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatelcorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l represents a view in perspective of a rein guide and supportembodying our invention as applied to the harness of a horse shown onlyin part, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal view of said rein guide and supportdetached.

The rein guide and support, as shown in the accompanying drawings, ismainly composed of a flexible body-piece A, having a loop or ring B ator near each of its opposite ends, arranged to be in like verticalplanes or thereabout, and an upper upright intermediate ring or loop C,arranged to lie in a plane at right angles or thereabout to the endrings or loops. The center ring or loop C is for the purpose ofattaching the Adevice to or suspending it from the throat-latch b of thebr1- dle at the lowest part of the latter, as shown in Fig. l, and theend rings or loops B B are for the purpose of receiving the reins e ethrough them. When a horse having this device suspended from thethroat-latch of the bridle by the passage of the latter through the loopC, is checked, and the driver has a tight rein or hold upon the reinswhich pass through the loops or rings B B, the device readily swingsinto a position which will allow of the reins being rendered back andforthwithout their bearing to any appreciable extent upon it, and bymaking said device of a iiexible character no possible harm can be done,and no perceptible interference takes place in the reining in of thehorse, just as if such device were not attached; but when the reins areslack the loops B B of the device will then serve to guide and supportthe reins from being swung bythe horse under the end of the shafts.

The whole rein guide and supporter may be constructed of variousmaterials and in different styles or forms ,but to give it that ieXi- Vble and elastic character, which is desirable, we prefer to make it ofcoiled wire, as here shown, throughout the length of the bodypiece A,with the loops B B and C formed out of or with the said body-piece.4

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isfv l. A rein guide and support forvehicleharness, adapted for suspension from the throat-latch of thebridle, and consisting of a body-piece, a pair of rein guiding andsupporting loops at the ends of said body-piece, and a throat-latch-engagin g loop intermediate of said end loops and arranged to projectfrom' IOO 23. TheWithiirdeseribed rein guidennilsnpthe ends of Saidbody-pieee, and :L projecting port for Vehicle -hnrx1ess, consti-notedof n thronIflntolreng'irging loop on the upper sido ooiled wirelmdypieee A, having rein guiding' l olf Suid body-piece in :L pinnenpproxinmtoly :rnd supporting loops l; I3 nl; ifs ends, :rnd :in :itright :LngleS to the end loops, all of Said [5 5 upper centraleross-loop C, no and for the pnrparlsbeing integral, snbstnntinllynsSpecified.

pose herein set forth.

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throaty latch or strap ol' the bridle, constructed Witnesses: io of:Leontinuons wire unl composed of :1 boilyl G. lV. IOTTOMLEY,

piece, rein guiding and supporting` loops at l PETER LAWRENSE.

